An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. — Frank Capra Copy Share Image
Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate. — Hozier Copy Share Image
To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To acquire a total of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I… — Gerard Nolst Trenité Copy Share Image
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“In other words, a positional parallelism in which sound is foregrounded as an independent feature (Nathanson, WP, 140), comes to override an… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
When I need to get into details, I like French. But when I want to do something stronger, English is better. The… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
“But life does not consist of words. Life consists of reality.” — Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Copy Share Image
Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic. — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
Love. Words can express it good, feelings can express it better. Hard pounding motions express it best. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
India is like Europe. This means there isone currency and numerous languages andcultures. And this is a 'Europe' made up ofvarious cultures. — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
